2007-01-17 06:59:53 · 21 answers · asked by spun_up_06 4 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
That's from his "westernizing".
2007-01-17 23:07:06 · answer #1 · answered by v 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2007-01-17 07:10:58 · answer #2 · answered by Nep-Tunes 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Here's your answer. When the Roman Emperor, Constantine, changed the official Roman religion to Christianity, he wanted it to appeal to everyone so that everyone would unite under one rule. Since most Europeans of that time and of the present are white, I believe that the paintings of Jesus as a white man originated there. In actuality, he was an Arabic Jew, and therefore would've been darker skinned than he is made out to be in paintings.
2007-01-17 07:06:17 · answer #3 · answered by Steve 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Because a white guy would be considered more acceptable to white people, the blacks always make Jesus seem black, Latins like a Latin looking Jesus but really, He was Middle Eastern.
2007-01-17 07:04:09 · answer #4 · answered by FoxyFoxy, Kickass Drama Queen 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Great question! Jesus was actually a bit darker than portrayed in the movies. That's from living in desert areas.
2007-01-17 07:03:11 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because during the Renaissance the artists started portraying him like that and all art related to Religious themes did the same.
2007-01-17 07:05:20 · answer #6 · answered by White 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Some people from the Middle East look white. In fact, I would say many consider themselves to be white, and would consider it odd that they be thought of as anything else.
2007-01-17 07:06:28 · answer #7 · answered by Tony M 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
do no longer decrease the hair on the perimeters of your head or clip off the perimeters of your beard. ~ Leviticus 19:27 do no longer imagine that I have come to abolish the regulation or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them yet to fulfill them. ~ Matthew 5:17 (Jesus Christ) If Christ got here to fulfill the regulation then he might want to have adhered to the regulation in Leviticus and to that end wouldn't have decrease the hair on the perimeters of his head or clip off the perimeters of the beard. He had no elegance or majesty to charm to us to him, no longer something in his visual charm that we would want to continuously want him. ~ Isaiah fifty 3:2 The scripture above is prophesying about Christ. So what ever Christ gave the effect of as a guy he became no longer beautiful or proper in visual charm. God purposely did not exhibit Jesus' finished visual charm in scripture so as that it would not reason conflict between races and peoples appearances. God is love no longer conceitedness.
2016-10-15 09:08:41 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He's not. Christians from the Middle East depict him as Middle Eastern; Coptic (Egyptian) Christians show him as Coptic. Europeans tend to show him as European. In icons, it particularly doesn't matter, since they are theological expressions, not realistic.
Christ became one of us. We honor him as one of us.
Forgive me.
/Orthodox
2016-03-15 14:07:12 · answer #9 · answered by OPsaltis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Political correctness..
And really, who wants to see a picture of Jesus in a Quick E Mart?
Oh I'm so going to hell for that one.
2007-01-17 07:03:13 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Actors from all over the world take the part. It depends where you live.
2007-01-17 07:04:01 · answer #11 · answered by robert m 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋